{"product_id":"9781946154163","title":"Smoke City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Rosson is a talent to be watched.\" \u003cstrong\u003e- Jason Heller, NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliantly haunting tale of forgiveness and redemption even in theface of abject failure . . . Depravity and grace meet in a powerful,profound, and lavish banquet for the soul.” \u003cstrong\u003e- Foreword Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with \"smokes\" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003eSmoke City\u003c\/em\u003e, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meerkat Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044438687984,"sku":"9781946154163","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781946154163_p0.jpg?v=1763768461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781946154163","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}